Undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas, Masters of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University, in beautiful Detroit, Michigan. I worked for five years at George Washington University here in D.C.then for five years on...
President of University of Michigan Talks Google Book Search. HighBeam Introduces Free Full-Text Journal Articles. While much attention was focused on the television ads aired during the super bowl, the real winners were those firms who combined...
For example, will a researcher in Germany be able to quickly access the full text of a 1972 book about tourism via Google and the University of Michigan that they need for their research? Via Searchblog, I read the excerpts from a speech by the...
The Internet Public Library (IPL) began in 1995 as a graduate seminar project in the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. The Librarians' Internet Index (LII) was founded in 1993 and is maintained by librarians...
University of Michigan Official Comments on Google Library Lawsuit For Many, It's All About the Very First Search Result - Jakob Nielsen's new Alertbox article: The Power of Defaults, does a great job of summarizing and commenting on new search...
Postscript: The full text of the University of Michigan statement about Google Library is available here. The University of Michigan Library is one of the five libraries Google plans to digitize materials from.
This article also points out that Google is also looking for 40,000 square feet, "for work related to the company's work at the University of Michigan as Google digitizes the entire library collection.
Another excellent metasearch tool that allows you to simultaneously search institutional repositories and other databases containing freely available "academically-oriented digital resources" is OAIster from the University of Michigan.
Google is working with libraries at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library to digitize books in their collections and make them accessible via Google Print.
